New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 7, 1917, Page 1

LD “ADS” MEAN ETTER BUSINESS| 'TAIN HERALD . GERMAN COMMERCE RAIDERS IN ATLANTIC, 'OFF NANTUCKET SHOALS AND VIRGINIA CAPES; | CRUISER IS BLOWN UP TO PREVENT SEIZURI | First War News is Wireless Flash From Lightship, Which Reports Hosfle Craft Prowling Through Fog Off Coast of Rh ' lsland--Second Raider Sighted Farther South--Warm Reception Promised By Navy if Intruder Comes Within Range § Guns——German Officers Destroy Warship Cormoran as United States Navy Men Ap__p‘rdach With Demand For Surrend ' COUNTRY FACING |[CREW BLOWS UP GERMAN CRUISER WHEN _ ' : i .|| PENFIELD’S PASSPORTS AREREADY; || American Naval Force Winter Crop Will Be/AMERICA MAY USE || BULGARIA AND TURKEY TO BREAK || at Guam Thwarted - 50,000,000 Bushels atope o ADSL T 845 3 m—Paseports have been placed at the | i Attempt to Seize Short of Last Year’s SLIZED STEAMSHWS : Interned Warship : Vessels- May Be Confiscated or . to the Exchange Telegraph company from The Hague, quoting tel grams received there from the Austrian capits. The despatch .say: Production S ; Paid for Aftr War - e / Washington, April 7—A prospective CREW ARE KILLED MACHINERY SPEEDS " that Bulgaria and Turkey also have decided to break off relations slump of more than 50,000,000 bush- with the United States and that Holland probably will look after Aus- ols in the winter wheat crop, as com- | ()FFICIAL the HERALD BEST OF ALl LOCAL NEWSPAPE ESTABLISHED - 18 Pp———— S 3¢ Shipping in Vicinity Where Strange Vess Were Seen Warned to Remain in Po - Raider Seen in Northern Waters is Sa Be of About 10,000 Tons 7 Newport, R. I, April 7—The first alarm of the € m:‘n-American war was sounded off the New England today. E ?]'ust before 8 o’clock this morning the Nantug} shoals lightship flashed to the naval radio station here § a German commerce raider had passed the lightship bo#t west. Instantly the plans of the navy for , meeting § such a situation became operative and while'they Were disclosed there was assurancc that if the audacious § ship held her course she would be given a warm recep Meantime shipping in the vicinity was warned to port or hold its anchorage. The weather was thick off coast and it was not expected that the $tranger would sighted again until she was at close quarters with oni the vessels of the coast patrol fleet. ‘ < It was at 7:40 o'clock that the war- | Her size was reported as painted craft looked out of the fog 'thousand tons, some fitty miles south of Nantucket ! Island and about eighty-two milds east of Newport. She was directly in the lane for west-bound 'shipping and not niore than 200 miles beyond the alicourde to New York. % appenred to be of about 10,000 Wit SEn o trian interests in Washington and American interests in Vienna. = | ‘Washington, April 7.—Word that the Austro-Hungarian fors eign office had placed passports at the disposal of the Americap pared with last year's crop, is first war feeding problem to confront the country. Official estimate today, embassy at Vienna had not reached the Austrian emibassy here early. today, according to Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingshorst, one of the em- —+the first for the 1917 harvest—fore- cast that much of a decrease although bassy attaches. the acreage.is much greater. BRAZIL AND CUBA T0 |ARREST OF PLOTTERS RIS LR e weawew orenecee| JECLARE WAR SOON| BY U. S. MARSHALS ) United States Ports. thie .?.'.?.":é.‘.‘é’:. pe: :o’..oo’:.o?o mw';.’ AFasRIELon,; AU 1 ks | sqcond For E ted to Act Mon- | Leaders of C spiracies Will day and Latter Some Be Detatined Until End Twenty Officers, Twelve Warrant Ofi- cers and 321 Enlisted Men Taken Prisoner—Cruls¢r Had Taken Ref- uge at American Possession in - _vific to: Bscape Japancse Warship ‘Washiogton, April 7.—The interned German' beat Cormoran at Guam has been blown up. S s All Branches of GOvernment at Wash- ington- Working at High Tenston— Raider O Virginia® Os Newport, News, April 7. ence of a German raider oft i ginia ‘- capes was offictally | here today.. A seagoing tug despatched to sea to warn the 'largest output of that crop ever | daY of war with Germany found every recorded in the United: States. . Last | government agency engaged along pre- iyear .the production of rye was 47,- | getermined lines, with congressional 373,000 bushels and the average of ‘work army : 'P":""‘“ vear was' 37,668,000 | S ke . The winter wheat crep of « the United States will be about 430,000,- 000 bushels, the department of agri- culture announced today. ' Last year 481,744,000 bushels were harvested. 2 * Condition of April 1 was 63.4 per cent. of normal, compared with 78.3 last year: 88.8 in 1916 and 82.2 the ten-year average. d The condition decreased 22.3 points fnom December 1 to April 1, compared with a naverage decline of four pbints in the .past ten years. Condition of ‘The navy and its newly organized power boat coast patrol squadron was being mobilized and naval militia and naval reserves were complying with orders to join the colors. From many cities came word that United States marshals had carried out orders of the department of jus- tice for arrest of sixty Germans whom the government believes it dangerous to allow at large. Officials had about determined to use the German merchant ships, near- ly one hundred vessels for government London, April 7.—The Central News | - Washington, April.-7.—United States says it is semi-officially informed that ; marshals and departmeht of justice a declaration of war by Brazil against | agents throughout the country, by -or- Germany may be expected by Monday. | ders from Attorney General Gregory s s ‘loday were arresting Germans alleged Sao Paulo, Brazil, April 7.—Great | to have been identified with. various crowds paraded through the streets | conspiracies in the United States. The today, singing the national, hymn and | men, sixty in number, are suspected waving flags. The paraders gathered | by the government of having been in front of the newspaper .offices, | the leaders in activities in connection cheering for Brazil and the Allies. | with blots to blow up the Welland The crowds dispersed without disor-|canal, attempts to foment. strikes in rye on April 1 was 86 per cent. of a service, though no announcement was normal compared with 87.8°last year, | made whether they would be confis- 89.5 in 1915 and 89.6 the ten year ' cated or paid for at the close of the average. ) ‘war. i Pl r & B % d Goss Chosen | Both the war and navy departments were arranging with contractors to furnish enough quantities of supplies 80 steel manufacturers agreed to fur- nish the navy the produce at last vear’s prices, effecting .a saving of $18,000,000 in the navy’s 1917 steel bills. The treasury department de- vised means of raising funds, subject to congressional authorization and the the department of agriculture set | forth on a movement to increase and conserve the nation’s supply of food- stuffs and to simplify distribution. Many other similar activities were started after the cabinet’s council of war last night. Army Bill Explanation. ‘The house military commuqee met today to hear Secretary Baker's ex- planation of the army general staft bill to draft and train 1,000,000 young men within a year and the accom- panying $3,000,000,000 budget, all of which had Prepdent ‘Wilson’s ap- proval. The senate military committee also had the army bill under consideration today. & ‘Without congressional action, the only thing the war department can do to increase the nation’s authorized armed forces is to order the regular army expanded to full war strength. It seemed likely today that a large part of the war’s cost which for the year alone may run far above the $3,- To. deal with the problems of brass and aluminum supply for the army and navy, the Council of National Defense today created two committees to act in conjunmction with the raw materials committee of the civilian ' advisory commission which acts with the coun- cil, The two new committees are ex- pected to bring highly valuable tech- nical information to the army and navy. Committees relating to other raw materials vital to the condyct of the war are being formed and will be {announced later. The two committees announced today follow: s Brass—Charles F. Brooker, Ameri- " can Brass company, Waterbury; C. D, Goss, S8covill Mfg. Co., Waterbury; Lewis H. Jones, ‘Dgtroit Copper and Brass company, Detxoit; Barton Hezelton, Rome Bras$“.company, Rome, N. Y; F. J. Kfim, Bridgeport Brass company, e- port. Aluminum—Arthur F. Davis, Alu- minum company of America, New York; E. E. Allyne, Aluinum Cast- ings company, Cleveland; Joseph A. Janney, Janney, Steinmetz & Co., Philadelphia. NAVAL MILITIA CALLED OUT. Aid of the police department was sought last night by state authorities in notifying local members of the Naval Militia of orders to report at once to the armory in Hartford. Po- liceman Gustav Hellberg was as- signed to the work. Those notified were Carl Anderson of 26 Belden street; Thomas Clerkin of 231 Elm street, Guy Bagley of 8 Hyland street, | Thomas McGuire of 31 Wallace atreet and James Skelley of 42 Wallace HILLQUIT OBJECTS New York Socialist Says America Has Been Drawn Needlessly Into War Against Germany. St. Louis, April 7.—Statements that the United States had been drawn “needlessly” into war and that those who can afford to pay—not the work- ing class—should finance it were made today by Morris Hillquit of New York, temporary chairman, in calling to o | 500,000,000 already asked of congress, even to $5,000,000,000, will be raised | by higher taxes on incomes, inherit- ! ance and excise profits. An announce- ment from Secretary McAdoo on de- i talls of the $474,000,000 bond issue already authorized was expected at any time. Conferences ‘on finance problems were begun today by Secretary Mc- Adoo and members of the senate com- mittee and the ways and means com- 1 mittee. | Announcement will be made soon ;that permission to enter American | harbors has been granted war vessels y of the allies. | A RUSSIAN PEASANTS Rl(}l'. London, Aprvil, 7.—Scenes of, fer- {vent patriotic enthusiasm have oc- icurred at Moscow, Samara, Rybinsk and other towns in Russia. Rioting s reported in some districts in the government of Sama, the peasants de- speeches. Rio Janeiro, April 7.—THe captain ot the torpedoed Brazilian steamer Parana cables that in addition to the killing of- three members of his crew several sailors were wounded by the explosion of the torpedoe. He re- ports that the ship was attacked at midnight without warning and de- nounces the conduct of the Germans as barbarous. A Noite, in a special edition, pub- lishes an .editorial article in which it says that only three solutions present themselves: First, a simple rupture of diplomatic relations; second, a rup- ture followed by reprisals such as the requisition of German ships and the adoption of a sympathetic neu- trality with the allies; third a dec- laration of war. “We consider the first,” continues the paper, “an insufficient solution. The second will inevitably lead to the third. We. have always been pact fists, but today we do not see how it i« possible to avoid the complete longer unless we resign ourselves to be considered as a people who, being outraged, will not defend itself.” New York, April 7.—The. Cuban congress tonight is expected to declare that a state of war exists between Cu- | ment, according to a cable message from E. S. Azpiazu, private secretary to President Menocal to the Republic of Cuba news bureau here. NAVAL MILITIA GOES MONDAY Connecticut Men Hurry Preparations to Entrain, Following Order to Gov. Holcomb—Are Going to Boston. Hartford, April 7.—Ordered into service by Secretary of Navy Daniels, through a telegram to Governor Hol- comb last evening, the six divisions of the naval militia of . Connecticut rushed preparations today for move- ment from their home armories. Their destination is Boston and they will entrain for the journey there the first of next week, probably Monday. WILL BECOME AVIATORS. Monroe Parsons of West Main street and Sheldon S. Roby, of Ber- lin, both students at Yale, have en- listed in the Curtiss company Airplane for ba and the Imperial German govern-- der after listening to patriotic | munitions plants, and with making bombs for - destroying ships carrying cargoes to the entente allies. Other orders of arrest may be sent out. All of thie men ordered arrested are regarded as dangerous persons to be at larg.e None will be allowed to give bail, it is said, and they will be im- prisoned perhaps until the end of the war. San Francisco, April 7.—Federal agents are waiting at the "home of Franz Bopp, former German consul general here, early today to place him under arrest if he returns. It wak said that he left the city yes- terday, taking two suitcases with him. His attorney said he had gone to visit friends and would surely surrender as soon as he returned. Acting under instructions from ‘Washington, government officers last night took into custody Lieut. Von Brinken, aide to Bopp, and word was received that Eckhart Von Schack, former German vice consul, had been arrested at his home near here. All three men have been out on bonds since their conviction of neutrality violations. i RBLIEF STEAMER SUNK Belgian L‘om;\:;n—llears of Loss of Anna Kostenes, Carrying Cargo of Foodstuffs Valued at $350,000. New York, April 7.—A cablegram recgived here by the Belgian Relief commission today states the commis- sion’s steamship, Anna Fostenes, which left New York, March 3, via Halifax, with a $350,000 cargo of foodstuffs, for Rotterdam, had been sunk. The message read “Trevier and An- na Fostenes sunk off Holland.” FOURTEEN' H. S. BOYS ENLIST. Malad, Idaho, April 7.—Sixteen youths, comprising the entire male section of the local high school, pre- sented themselves at the United States army recruiting station yesterday with the intention of enlisting. Fourteen were accepted. d A A WERATHER. Martford, April Hartford and vicinit, continued cool tonigh Sunday. Overcast by cvening, 7.—For Fair, and Sunday take possession of her and was de- stroyed by her crew. Two German warrant officers and five enlisted men of the crew were killed in the éxplo- sion. P Twenty officers, twelve warrant officers and 321 enlisted men were taken prisoner. : The navy department’s announce- ment said: “The interned German cruiser Cormoran at Guam which refused to surrender blew herself up killing two warrant officers and five enlisted men. ‘Twenty officers, twelve wounded offi- cers and 321 enlisted men were taken prisoners. The message was received at the navy department today from Capt. Roy Smith, governor of Guam and commandant of the naval station there. The destruction of the Cormoran took ‘place at 8 o’clock last night, ‘Washington time. Internment of the Cormoran at Guam has been the cause of contin- uation conflict and disagreeable inci- dents between the American naval of- ficers in charge of the island and the German crew. On several ocasions, former German Ambassador Von Bernstorff appealed to the state department on behalf of the Cormoran’s officers and crew to have the vessel transferred to San Francisco. Each time the department refused. The Cormoran was chased into Guam by Japanese warships soon, af- ter the declaration of war between Japan and Germany. She had ex- hausted her fuel supply raiding com- merce and was compelled to burn her woodwork structure to make steam to reach that port. The navy department issued statement: Apra, Island of Guam, today, by her crew, sinking immediately. One war- rant officer and one enlisted raan are dead, one wounded officer and’ four enlisted men are missing, twenty offi- cers, twelve wounded officers and 321 enlisted men have been made prison- ers. *‘On October 28, 1914, the thirty- five foot cutter called the ‘Ocean Comber’, entered the harbor of Apra, Island of Guam, in charge of Lieut. Von Elpons of the Imperial German navy. The boat and part of their officers and four natives of New Guinea had been at sea for a long time, having left the Cormoran for the purpose of sending a cable to San Francisco for supplies. The date of cipher was' October 12 and the loca- tion of the Cormoran was not dis- closed. Permission was not granted to send the cablegram and the offi- cers and men were interned. On De- cember 14, 1914, thé German auxil- jary cruiser Cormoran appeared off the harbor of Apra and sent a radio asking permission to enter for coal and provisions. She was allowed to enter and the commanding officer to visit the governor. ‘Commanding officer Juckschwerdt stated that he had just come from tofis and shipping men who heard this description expressed the opinion that she .was an armored cruiser disguised as a merchantman. A few minutes after she was picked up the vessel was lost again in the fog that hung heavy along the mainlahd. Nantucket lightship, the outpost for west-bound shipping, is anchored forty-five miles east by south of Nan- tucket Island and ninety miles east of Newport. It is 193 miles east of Ambrose Channel lightship, at the entrance to New York harbor. It is stationed between the west-bound lane of travel which is just off the Nantucket shoals, and the lane for east bound vessels, twenty miles south of the shoale. The lightship marks the turning point for west-bound craft beading in for Newport and New York. ‘The raider was holding the regula- tion course and would have been with- in easy striking distance of outward- bound shipping. However, so far as known, no ves- sels were moving out past the shoals at the time the hostile ship was sight- ed. Newport) R, L, April T.-——A German sea raider was officially reported off Nantucket at 7:40 o’clock this morn- ing. The deputy collector of customs warned all shipping hot tc leave port until further notice. The raider, according to informa- tion received by Deputy Collector of Customs Wolcott, was bound west. Immediately after the naval au- thorities were notifled of the raider’s presence, word was sent to the col- lector’s office to keep shipping in port. The names of the ship or station which sent the report was not re- vealed. A number of ships are on patrol along the coast, ‘Word that the ralder was approach- ing the New England coast caused great activity in naval circles, al- though plans for dealing with the enemy were not made public, The collector of oustoms made every effort to get in touch at once with shipping agents at other ports to warn them of ‘the danger. Washington Receives Report. ‘Washington, April 7.—The navy de- partment was advised early today by Nantucket Shoals lightship by radio that an unknown ship had passed near that vessel. No information as to the ship’s character was given. A radio message sald that a “guspicious looking” vessel _had passed the lightship headed westward. The navy department expects the commandant of the Newport naval district to take whatever steps he may deem necessary without orders for the department. % Reported to Be 10,000-Ton Ship, Boston, April 7.—The following received today at the yard from the Nantucket lightship: “Commerce raider passed Nantucket lightship bound west at 7:20. Naval officiuls here reported that going and /incoming vessels & order all outgoing vessels {8 back. The tug is equipped witl less and is expected to reach 4] in the danger zone. Captain Scofield of the steamer Matoa, riow load stated that the master of called on him as he was p about 9:30 a. m. and ordered Temain in the harbor until netice. ST INSULTED OLD GLOR! Bristol Man Refused 1o i Orchestra Played Natiohal'y ang isiSeat to Jail for Thre Eristsl, Aprii 7.—Krank showed disrespect for the AN flag yesterday and today hej tenced to jail for three mon As a spectator at a theat! not stand when the natio: was played. Three Spanish erans were behind Lim and Piedro to stand. He refused § vileda the flag. The veurm him from the place aud ents plaint which before Judge day was set forth as brésch | peace. Piedro, whose age’ ] understood to have bheen in §i formatory recently. b ke Waterbury, April 7.—Jobn I i, who w#ald he was a R today hound over to the next. the superior court under $1,000 by Judge John F. 2 the technical charge of breacl peace. It was charged that B had insulted the American f saying “to with the 3 ica i no good.” Wm, overheard Hurnick’s v made complaint to the police] nick denied having insulted the SEASIDE PARK RESER! Bridgeport Public \Warned Trespassing on Favorite A Under Penalty of Béing® Bridgeport, April 7. ments will appear in all papers this afternoon anno a large part of Seaside Park h| set aside as a military reserva warning all persons to sta; the restricted limits under pes death. “They will be shot, the warning. The reservation includes ti part of the park around the monument ahd a long section boulevard and sea wall. Thi favorite drive for automobiles: 3,000 ACRES LAND O > Boston, April 7.—The New | Land Developers Exchange v night to offer to the federal: sovernments the use of 8 land either for mobilizati this “The German auxiliary cruiser Cor- moran was blown up in the harbor of der a special session of the national !nandingithe immediate expropriation ' school for training in aviation the raider had two masts, a large convention of the socialist party, lm‘ land. the United States service. Istack and was painted slate color. for cultivation. The land P e near vaxious New England" (Continued On Se